This was news 6 months ago when it happened, but yeah Hollywood has no balls. Make a movie that the Chinese won't steal, or make a movie that Americans don't want to see. It was never even a hard choice.

The studio suits should have seen this from the beginning. If they absolutely had to remake this (which they didn't), they should have made it a period piece and gone with the Soviets again. But no one accused studio suits of being smart.

If they had to set it in the present, China produces every piece of shiat we buy. If they cut that off for a few weeks, that would put them in a semi-realistic position to invade us. North Korea is a farking joke.

Pocket Ninja:My opinion of someone who goes to see this movie is about the same as someone who lines up to catch the latest Fast and Furious installment. Maybe slightly lower.

I watched the original Red Dawn again a couple nights ago. That was probably my favorite movie growing up as I was young enough to be scared to death of that kind of shiat. The movie was gritty and the casting was spot on. These were desperate, scared, and pissed off kids who were trained in using firearms to a degree by their parents - lifelong hunters. The movie, at least to me, was very believable. Lets face it - we had a great enemy back then. An entire country and population we could hate and point missiles at. Now we have Best Korea and a rag-tag group of terrorists on the outskirts of some shiathole in the middle east.

This new Red Dawn is for the Twilight crowd. All kinds of glitz, great hair, Armani clothes, Somehow the kids get military training growing up in a rich white neighborhood and that's never explained. No one is tough.. They try to make all the "men" sensitive wimps. The girls never seem to get dirty or a hair out of place. Seriously.. You're better off watching Twilight than this, at least they have gay vampires.

Once more though I'm mystified as to why Hollywood continues to reboot movies that were excellent to begin with. Who not take a good concept badly executed (like Johnny Neumonic) and make it into a good movie?

Tell Me How My Blog Tastes:This was news 6 months ago when it happened, but yeah Hollywood has no balls. Make a movie that the Chinese won't steal, or make a movie that Americans don't want to see. It was never even a hard choice.

B-but we need moar monies to buy moar nose candy and another learjet!!!!

Right wing conspiracy sites like the wall street journal are getting even crazier now that Obama got reelected. These are the same business decisions that have greeters saying Happy Holidays, you can't alienate pieces of your customer base.

Subby must have been one of those a-holes who protested against the US because some guy made an derogatory movie about the Prophet Muhammad. He does not get the idea that the US govt does not control the film industry.

Best Korea could take over any country it wanted to. They have transcended Marxist thought. They are on a whole new level of intelligent compared to the rest of the world. That's why I strong support the teaching of Juche to everyone in the US so that we may combat them with their own magnificent wisdom.

If you don't agree with me, well it looks like we're going to have to cut your rations of grass and tree bark down.

Soviet Russia WAS an enemy of the United States and China is currently a business partner, so there was at least some real fear and reality back in the 80's. The reason nobody would sign on to it is because the entire concept is idiotic. I got it! Lets make a movie about the US invading Canada!

monoski:Subby must have been one of those a-holes who protested against the US because some guy made an derogatory movie about the Prophet Muhammad. He does not get the idea that the US govt does not control the film industry.

//hell, they don't control the rating system.

They do control it through threat of censorship. Had the government not threatened to do so, the industry never would have volunteered to do it themselves. Same with music and game ratings.

Original movie: Russians, Cubans, AND Mexicans invade. Not terribly plausible unless they had developed the tech to wipe our our ability to respond, but it's a small leap and a fun escape-from-reality movie.

This movie: One nation with considerably less man-power, economics, technology, and the rest.... decides to drive/fly across the Pacific to invade the US mainland. South Korea, Japan, China, and even Russia apparently sit around letting it happen (and if they were to suddenly change their tune, apparently decide not to assist NK).

xynix:Pocket Ninja: My opinion of someone who goes to see this movie is about the same as someone who lines up to catch the latest Fast and Furious installment. Maybe slightly lower.

I watched the original Red Dawn again a couple nights ago. That was probably my favorite movie growing up as I was young enough to be scared to death of that kind of shiat. The movie was gritty and the casting was spot on. These were desperate, scared, and pissed off kids who were trained in using firearms to a degree by their parents - lifelong hunters. The movie, at least to me, was very believable. Lets face it - we had a great enemy back then. An entire country and population we could hate and point missiles at. Now we have Best Korea and a rag-tag group of terrorists on the outskirts of some shiathole in the middle east.

This new Red Dawn is for the Twilight crowd. All kinds of glitz, great hair, Armani clothes, Somehow the kids get military training growing up in a rich white neighborhood and that's never explained. No one is tough.. They try to make all the "men" sensitive wimps. The girls never seem to get dirty or a hair out of place. Seriously.. You're better off watching Twilight than this, at least they have gay vampires.

Once more though I'm mystified as to why Hollywood continues to reboot movies that were excellent to begin with. Who not take a good concept badly executed (like Johnny Neumonic) and make it into a good movie?

Eh, I went and saw it, more for the lulz than anything else. Pretty stupid, nowhere near as good as the original. The one from the 80's seemed far more realistic. Scared, half starving kids who for the most part pulled small raids on supply convoys, isolated engineer units, and small patrols. This new crew was running around the city pretty much unchecked, shooting up a major metropolitan area with little or no problems. The North Koreans were running around in Humvees and with Abrams tanks for crying out loud. Outside of the AKs, they didn't even attempt to use Soviet equipment, just American gear. They do explain the combat training though. The Patrick Swayze replacement had spent 6 years in the Marines, and was still on active duty, just home on leave. He trained them up, there was a little training montage even. I'm not saying it was realistic, just that it was explained. They also decided to bring the Russians in, helping the NKs, to explain how those losers even got here.

Granny_Panties:Soviet Russia WAS an enemy of the United States and China is currently a business partner, so there was at least some real fear and reality back in the 80's. The reason nobody would sign on to it is because the entire concept is idiotic. I got it! Lets make a movie about the USCanada invading Canadathe US!